Each of today's poems is in the voice of a student who looks back. First, from Carol Dorf, a poem to the author of a book--written as a fan-letter, "Dear Ivar." And then, for his hero (a special Grammar School teacher) by Czech poet and scientist Miroslav Holub (1923-98), "The Fraction Line."
Dear Ivar,
I read your book on the unexpected.
Like most poets, I opposed mathematics
when I was young, seeing it as the converse
to feeling. The previous statement is false.
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